Share your World week 26

What’s your most memorable (good or bad) airplane flight? Flights tend to blur into one these days but the flight for my second visit to the USA sticks in my memory, both too and from.  En route the airline chose in their infinite wisdom to make one of the in flight movies "Twilight Zone: The Movie".  …

Small Prophet, Quick Return

It was an ungodly hour, so why on Earth was someone hammering on the front door? "I'm coming," muttered Cooper as she tried to keep her modesty covered by her dressing down. As she closed in on the door she picked up a cane just in case it was trouble of the violent type; trouble …

Chasin’ the Trane

I think one moment of awe in my life I always remember was when I heard Blue Train for the first time. I heard the title track of the legendary Jazz album on one of those "Best (insert genre) Album in the World Ever" type compilations which were popular around the turn of the century and although …

Fiction: Where Somebody Knows Your Name

Terry started hard at the uneaten meal, his fork poised millimetres above the surface of the cottage pie waiting to break the surface but truth be told, Terry really wasn’t feeling the desire to eat. He’d lost his appetite completely now but after a day of having the shakes and feeling faint Terry was trying …

Pick Myself Up

Just a brief one this week to bring everyone up to speed as being at Upton Jazz Festival for the weekend and changes in my work pattern mean there will (probably) not be another update until the end of next week. Well I started my job at the Plume of Feathers on Monday and so …

The Metaphysics of a Pint of Beer

We all know the condescending rhetoric of how the view of a pint glass of beer defines if you are an optimist or a pessimist. If you say half empty it means you have a pessimistic look on life, if you say half full your an optimist. Well I say bollocks to that! The concept …

Companion Piece

The TARDIS has always been my most faithful of companions, we're inseparable. I am something of a lone wolf, not quite the littlest hobo as I do have a place I call home, but I could probably honestly say I have never had a fellow companion sharing my world. Oh I have my various friends …

Living is Easy

I think Summer needs reinstalling here in Blighty, meaning I'd better invest in some wellies. So here is some seasonal Jazz to lift those British spirits.   https://youtu.be/CBAHJ6WjAZY Summer Song, taken from the Dave Brubeck album The Real Ambassadors which also includes collaborations with Carmen McCrae and the vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks and Ross. https://youtu.be/oU3XwwAc2qY …

Share Your World week 25

How many languages do you you speak? Only English properly, though I know a small amount of French and Spanish. What are some words that just make you smile? The word Elbow. The way it appears on the page and the way the word sounds and forms in your mouth. If you were the original …

G-G-Grenville, Fetch Your cloth

That was a line frequently spoken by the late great Ronnie Barker in Roy Clarke's second most successful sitcom. The sitcom is of course Open All Hours, a gentle comedy about a miserly shopkeeper named Arkwright and his wide eyed wet-behind-the-ears nephew Grenville, played by Ronnie Barker and David Jason respectively. This was the second …